So how long until the Kansas state legislature (and very likely other states' legislatures as well) pass laws that either greatly restrict bandwidth, greatly increase the price of fast internet for the end user, or just outright ban high-speed internet purely out of spite for the people who would otherwise benefit from it?

If not just to support another ISP to act as direct competition. Honestly, 1Gbps down is a bit extreme for me these days, now that I have money to just buy PC games and streaming typically never runs out of buffer on whatever I'm watching. It's just the aspect of having another option there, another good option, that I want to see more of.

Part of me feels like the other ISPs will get lobbyists together to somehow make Google's ISP unconstitutional or something.

Voiceofreason01:But in the down side it's only available(for now) in KCK and not the rest of the metro. So upside super awesome internet, down side you live in KCK and will probably be shot soon.

What?

I live in south Kansas City, Missouri and have been preregistered for a few months.

They also already gave everyone 1 TB of cloud storage who signed up even though we aren't paying for service until it's installed (spring to fall of next year, unfortunatly my neighborhood is in the fall timeline).

gingerjet:In my house in Minneapolis there are at least four options for internet service. In my apartment in San Diego I have exactly one. Guess were I get less bandwidth, poorer service and pay more?

There was a recent worldwide survey linked to on Fark that said the UK has 700 ISP to choose from, almost all available to everyone across the country. The way our phone system, and by accident our ISP system, was deregulated years ago lucked out into giving us a huge choice. It means I could start a ISP tomorrow from my bedroom and be able to compete nationwide with the big boys, and the owner of the network has to give me that access on the same terms as everyone else. They are upgrading to FTTC in a big way (I got mine six months ago. I get 25Mbps internet and unlimited phone calls for £40 a month. It would be 40Mbps if I lived close to the exchange) and FTTP (80-100Mbps) is not far behind.

error 303:Voiceofreason01: But in the down side it's only available(for now) in KCK and not the rest of the metro. So upside super awesome internet, down side you live in KCK and will probably be shot soon.

What?

I live in south Kansas City, Missouri and have been preregistered for a few months.

They also already gave everyone 1 TB of cloud storage who signed up even though we aren't paying for service until it's installed (spring to fall of next year, unfortunatly my neighborhood is in the fall timeline).

It's not like this is super secret info or anything

Also if you just want regular broadband and not gigabit there's a $300 install charge (or $25/month for 12 months) and then you get free highspeed (though not gigbit) internet for seven years. :D

I hate most of you. I pay $85 a month for 20-25mbps through comcast in Florida. And there are enough outages that I subscribed to a dsl service to act as my backup ISP for the several days a month Comcast has service issues.

(Comcast internet is about $50, but they still require you pay $30 for basic cable every month whether you want it or not).

omnimancer28:I hate most of you. I pay $85 a month for 20-25mbps through comcast in Florida. And there are enough outages that I subscribed to a dsl service to act as my backup ISP for the several days a month Comcast has service issues.

(Comcast internet is about $50, but they still require you pay $30 for basic cable every month whether you want it or not).

did you try Earthlink Cable? (yes, that company still exists!). I used them before, paid $30 a month for 15 mbps, no cable contract required.

I get 11mbps and while more bandwidth wouldn't hurt (especially for games from Steam), it's really sufficient. A lot of sites throttle connections anyway, so even if you've got the speed, they won't deliver data any quicker.

ReapTheChaos:Sounds like a waste of money to me. They may very well offer speeds that high but I seriously doubt there's any site out here that's going to feed you data at that rate.

They have this new thing now, where you can get parts of a large file from many different people with slower connections. It's called "Bittorent". You sound like you should try it. I think you'll find it quite speedy.

10 years ago I had 8M down/1up ADSL service in suburban Japan for the equivalent of $30/mo. Came back state side and DSL was only just creeping into my home town at (at most) 300k down for closer to $40/mo. Looks like prices are still similar now, but they don't price gouge for higher speed service like Telcomms do here. Link There's only about a 35% increase in cost to increase your speed 6 times from lowest to highest service there. That's a pretty good deal in my book.

Paying $50 for 12M down now and would take Google service for $25/mo for a year then free the next 7 in a heartbeat even if it is slower. Yay for lack of choice (ATT/Comcast in my area only).